happy anniversary mom and dad...

today would have been my parents' 30th wedding anniversary. that's them on the big day, happy, healthy, hopeful, in love. mom was 23, dad was 26. they got almost 20 years of marriage together, before my mom died. they were lucky -- those 20 years were pretty amazing, for all of us involved.

i had a really nice talk with dad tonight. life keeps going, even though from time to time things get overwhelming or painful. spirits are resilient. we stretch and retract, deal with devastation and passion and jubilation and sadness. and we persevere, we endure. it's the unexpected stuff that helps us figure out what we're made of.

i love you, mom and dad -- you're brilliant!